Real Dictionary

reflect
When something is reflected in a mirror or in water, you can see its image in the mirror or in the water.
verb: If something reflects an attitude or situation, it shows that the attitude or situation exists or it shows what it is like.
verb: When light, heat, or other rays reflect off a surface or when a surface reflects them, they are sent back from the surface and do not pass through it.

reflect in American English
to bend or throw back (light, heat, or sound)
intransitive verb: to be turned or cast back, as light
transitive verb: to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface

reflect in British English
verb: to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which light, other electromagnetic radiation, sound, particles, etc, are thrown back after impinging on a surface